The Latest Breaking News from Fermilab

How physicists used antimatter, supercomputers and giant magnets to solve a 20-year-old mystery

Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big unanswered questions.

The Conversation · Jun 4, 2025

Ambitious new dark matter-hunting experiment delivers 1st results

The new BREAD experiment, which was designed to search the cosmos for mysterious dark matter, has returned its first results.

Space · Apr 4, 2024

A former Fermilab physicist, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster is using AI technology, and he’s worried

As the only member of Congress with a Ph.D. in physics, Foster is using AI to learn more about a field that fascinates many and terrifies others, including federal officials.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 22, 2023

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to visit Argonne National Lab, Hyzon Motors

In Bolingbrook, Granholm and Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., will tour Hyzon, which makes zero-emission, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 22, 2022

The particle that could break physics

A new measurement of the W boson suggests the Standard Model is wrong. Yet there still isn't a "smoking gun"

Salon · Apr 14, 2022

A decade of science and trillions of collisions show the W boson is more massive than expected – a physicist on the team explains what it means for the Standard Model

“You can do it quickly, you can do it cheaply, or you can do it right. We did it right.” These were some of the opening remarks from David Toback, leader of the Collider Detector at Fermilab, as he announced the results of a decadelong experiment to measure the mass…

The Conversation · Apr 14, 2022

New data on an elusive particle could upend physics as we know it

The W boson measurement provides insight into the weak nuclear force, and could explain other longstanding mysteries like antimatter imbalance and dark matter.

Inverse · Apr 7, 2022